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  • JTA EXCLUSIVE: Greek telethon for Gaza hospital a scam

    July 12, 2009 8:38pm

    In a JTA investigation, Athens correspondent Jean Cohen discovers that a six-hour telethon in Greece that raised $1.67 million for a Christian Palestinian hospital allegedly destroyed by Israel was a scam: The hospital never existed. Now Palestinians are demanding to know where the money will be spent.

  • Greek neo-Nazi acquitted of Holocaust denial

    March 29, 2009 4:26pm

    An Athens appeals court acquitted a well-known Greek neo-Nazi of Holocaust denial.

  • Greek weekly calls Jews ‘Christ killers’

    January 6, 2009 12:08am

    A weekly Greek newspaper calls Jews “Christ killers” in an editorial about the Gaza conflict.

  • Greek politician compares Israel to Hitler

    December 29, 2008 9:23pm

    The leader of a far-right political party in Greece compared Israel’s actions in Gaza to Hitler.

  • Greek weekly stresses Madoff’s Jewishness

    December 23, 2008 8:15pm

    A Greek newspaper in a front-page headline called Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme “The Jewish bond.”

  • Barak hints at Labor leaving government

    January 2, 2008 10:00am

    Ehud Barak hinted his Labor Party could quit the Israeli government over the investigation into the Second Lebanon War.

  • Web site lauds NCJW leader

    January 2, 2008 10:00am

    A National Council of Jewish Women leader was cited as one of the “21 Leaders for the 21st Century.”

  • Ukrainian rabbis seen as ‘powerful foreigners

    January 2, 2008 10:00am

    A Kiev weekly magazine cited two prominent Ukrainian rabbis among the most “powerful foreigners” in the country.

  • Bush signs Darfur divestment bill

    January 2, 2008 10:00am

    States and municipalities now have federal backing if they want to divest from Sudan.

  • Syria breaks with France over Lebanon

    January 2, 2008 10:00am

    Syria will break off relations with France over the Lebanon presidential crisis.